Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 2 | With their lack of English they were unable to explain why they chose to go hungry rather than eat such a choice dish . |
| 3 | Further , rather than seeking such a sensibility in an ‘ inner condition ’ , we might more usefully identify it outwardly and in relation to other strategies of survival and subversion , especially the masquerade of femininity , and the mimicry of the colonial subject . |
| 4 | But rather than undertaking such an analysis it will be enough to demonstrate that this control procedure is in principle inadequate for our present needs . |
| 5 | Cohen stresses therefore , the collective response as central to delinquency , rather than seeing such behaviour as an individual response to the failure to achieve middle-class goals , as Merton argued . |
| 6 | The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion . |
| 7 | New ways of delivering legal advice and assistance are being explored by the Legal Aid Board including schemes which will franchise certain work to specific firms or agencies rather than making such advice available from any solicitor ( Smith , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 9 | Having decided that an environmental impact study was necessary , it wanted the study to be undertaken by an independent group which would be more sympathetic to community concerns and interests , rather than have such a study conducted by a government agency such as An Foras Forbartha . |
| 10 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |
| 11 | As stated earlier , rather than attempt such difficult tasks as counting all ‘ illegal drug users ’ , ‘ regular drug users ’ or ‘ non-medical drug users ’ , we decided to count all ‘ problem drug users ’ . |
| 12 | Too often senior managers get carried away measuring features of the service system , for example , the numbers of doctors and nurses per head of population , rather than asking such questions as : ‘ Is the community team 's service available twenty-four hours per day ? ’ |
| 13 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 14 | This is because some disinfectants serve to reinforce rather than overcome such scents which are not discernible by our noses . |
| 15 | They do not have to be repaid and may be awarded to those leaving hospital or residential care , or to help people to continue to live in the community rather than enter such care . |
| 16 | In view of the absence of any clear ethical code for linguists working with human subjects , what follows should be interpreted as an attempt to air the major issues rather than to prescribe such a code . |